Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
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BRAHMS; CARTER Clarinet Quintets
This is a disc of two halves. It opens with the greatest clarinet quintet ever penned and then abruptly switches...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 (Deveau)
If you were hearing Mozart’s K449 and Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto for the first time via these reductions for string quintet...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019
DEBUSSY Études MESSIAEN Fauvettes de l’Hérault (Roger Muraro)
The warm and mellifluous sound enveloping Javier Perianes’s coupling of Préludes Book 1 and Estampes is much in keeping with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019
Lilit Grigoryan: Variations Serieuses
The Armenian pianist Lilit Grigoryan’s 2012 solo release containing sonatas by Scarlatti, Schumann and Bartók essentially revealed a highly capable...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019
Belle Époque (Berlinskaya & Ancelle)
In the March 2017 issue it was a pleasure to give a warm welcome to a recital from this husband-and-wife...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018
SCHUBERT Piano Music (Leon McCawley)
Listening to some of the more self-indulgent of Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert’s most profound songs on this disc, I cannot...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2019
Carlo Grante plays Schubert
For this disc, recorded in Vienna in 2013, Carlo Grante chose a superbly maintained 1923 Bösendorfer Imperial, loaned by Eva...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019
PADEREWSKI; SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works (Radosław Sobczak)
These two anthologies of Szymanowski’s and Paderewski’s piano music arrived just in time for the centenary of Poland’s independence, celebrated...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2019
LISZT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Kinderszenen (Joseph-Maurice Weder)
First impressions: a Liszt Sonata running to 33'19" – a bit on the slow side. Likewise Kinderszenen at 21'30". And...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2019
Vanessa Wagner: Liszt, Pärt
In the booklet interview, Vanessa Wagner says that she long avoided Liszt for, among other things, his extroversion, brilliance and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Replay: The Guarneri at the top of their game; François in concert; Demus in Dresden
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Pro-Ject Stereo Set E CD: Small System, Big Appeal
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
Book review - The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (by Anne Sebba)
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Review - Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa: A Tribute
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Shostakovich at 50: three new box-sets that do the composer justice
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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